Mission

The Foundation endeavors to strengthen, promote, and, where necessary, defend the contributions of the humanities and the arts to human flourishing and to the well-being of diverse and democratic societies.

Through this program, the Foundation assists select colleges, universities, and research institutes in training scholars and producing scholarship in the humanities that contributes to culture and society.

The Arts and Cultural Heritage program seeks to nurture exceptional creative accomplishment, scholarship, and conservation practices in the arts, while promoting a diverse and sustainable ecosystem for these disciplines.

The Diversity program seeks to help diversify the next generation of college and university faculty; it also aims to strengthen institutions that improve educational attainment of historically underrepresented groups.

Open Sleeve Plain Blazer front Unique Style Lapel Split The Scholarly Communications program assists research libraries, archives, museums, universities, presses, and arts organizations that seek to further our collective understanding of societies and cultures around the world.

The Foundation seeks to strengthen the systems of higher education and cultural institutions essential to building and sustaining viable polities and societies in emerging as well as more established regions of the globe.